SSD trouble

[WillBlake]

Hi!  So my brother just got himself a SSD, and he's really paranoid about how he can't use Microsoft Word coz it's supposedly write intensive... I personally don't agree with him, but just to be sure, just how write intensive Word can be? Plz help me speak some sense into my bro's head, Thx!!! 

[Tylerebowers]

If you are writing to a ssd it should be fine 

[wolfsbane3083]

Well, unless he's typing up over 1TB per day for a few years I don't think he has to worry

[MimigaKing]

In simple words, Word is probably the least read/write intensive application he could ever run. SSD nowadays are validated and warranted to run the entire capacity of the drive more than a thousand times. Your brother's word document will write that? 5 MB an hour top?

 

 

No issued whatsoever

[Tylerebowers]

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[wolfsbane3083]

Oh btw, show him this: http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

[papapoi]

tell him to turn off the auto save feature, do they still have that option? by the time he writes that much data to the drive for it to go bad he will probably have got a new pc . 

 

if he was torrenting(taboo subject but using as an example for eucational puproses) or something like that then maybe he could work it to death but word? does he write novels like war and peace? doubt it. as long as it isnt some chinese off brand then he should be fine

[WillBlake]

Thank You! Seems like he doesn't trust me at all lol 

Anyway is a Samsung evo 850 250 gb. I don't think he's got anything to worry about

[Tylerebowers]

2 minutes ago, WillBlake said:

Thank You! Seems like he doesn't trust me at all lol 

Anyway is a Samsung evo 850 250 gb. I don't think he's got anything to worry about

Same one I have! I use it as my system drive

[WillBlake]

1 minute ago, Tyleredbowers said:

Same one I have! I use it as my system drive

Nice, would be a better idea than our laptop drive but hey it still works perfectly

[Thony]

If he is too woried, the 120gb SSDs are so cheap he can change them every year with no problem (any. Even V300 should last him a year no matter what).

[BrightCandle]

I have a number of SSDs, and I abuse them pretty badly. As a programmer I compile code a lot throughout the day and that is reading and writing thousands of small files hundreds of times a day, I also do plenty of video encoding and running VMs. I have two SSDs and one of them is like 4 years old the other is 2 and the first says it has 97% of its life left and the other is 99%. My old Intel 80GB gen 1 SSD that I used in a lot of work machines before it became totally obsolete some years ago got down to 95% life left.

 

It takes a lot of abuse to really reduce the life of an SSD, Word isn't going to do a thing to it, you need to be writing 10's of Gigabytes a day consistently to have a chance of running the drive out before its obsolete, SSD life just isn't an issue for a desktop computer. Its an issue in a database server potentially where its doing continuous writes but its not a problem on even a heavily used desktop.